People think Amilcare Ponchielli is a one-hit wonder because of his famous tune in the opera La Giocanda. But he wrote more than that, including this tribute to Giuseppi Verdi, called "Reminiscences ...

La Gioconda is an opera in four acts by Amilcare Ponchielli set to an Italian libretto by Arrigo Boito (as Tobia Gorrio), based on Angelo, Tyrant of Padua, a play in prose by Victor Hugo, dating from ...

La Gioconda is an opera in four acts by Amilcare Ponchielli set to an Italian libretto by Arrigo Boito, based on Angelo, Tyrant of Padua, a play in prose by Victor Hugo. First performed in 1876, La ...

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Under the baton of the dynamic and electric guest maestro, Gustavo Dudamel, the Vienna Philharmonic performs the finale of Amilcare Ponchielli’s “Dance of the Hours” from the opera “La Gioconda.” The ...

The Vienna Philharmonic performs Amilcare Ponchielli’s “Dance of the Hours” from the opera “La Gioconda,” Johann Strauss’ Wiener Blut “Viennese Spirit” Waltz, and Jeronimo Gimenez’s Intermezzo from La ...

“Yesterday your mother offended me, so I drowned her,” snarls Barnaba, a ruthless government agent, at the end of La Gioconda, Amilcare Ponchielli’s sole opera to enter the standard repertoire, ...

Here & Now music opinionator Fran Hoepfner joins host Robin Young to discuss why she thinks Amilcare Ponchielli’s “Dance of the Hours,” made famous in Disney’s “Fantasia,” and the “Hello Muddah, Hello ...

We hear the all-star orchestra at the Grand Teton Music Festival in their annual tribute to the music of Vienna. Eiji Oue leads the orchestra in Johann Strauss, Jr.'s "The Blue Danube Waltz," along ...